There is Vitriol in this Mine, white, red, blew and green ; and filfo 
Vitriolat waters. There is a fubitance found, wfcich fticks to the Gold- 
ore, offmall pointed parts like needles, called by them Antimony of Gold. 
There are Chryftals found here, and fome tindur'd yellow, 
1 he Miners will not allow any Quick-filver or BrimftcMie to have been 
found here ^ yet in the lately mention*d Antimony of Gold there is evi- 
dently Sulphur, as you 1 perceive by burning it. 1 he Quick-filver-mine, 
mentioned in the Anfwer to Kirchers Inquiries in his Mnnd^fuhterra" 
neus, is an Hmgarian mile, or 7 Englifh miles diftani: from Cremmz,^ 
and is not wrought in at pref;nt. 
There is a Vitaol-mine in thefe Hills nigh the Gold-mine ^ the Earth 
or Ore of it is reddifh, and fometimes greenilh. This Earth is infuf 'd 
in water, and afcer 3 dayes the water is powr'doff, andboyl'd ydayes 
in a leaden Veflfel, till it comes to a thick granulated whicifh fubflance, 
which is afterwards reduced to a calx in an Oven, and ferveth in the ma. 
king of Aqm-fortts^ or the feparating water, ufedat Schemnitz,. 
They have divers wayes of taking the Gold out of its Ore-, by burning 
the Ore, by melting, by adding Silver- Ore and other Minerals, Sand and 
Lead ; as they find the Ore fluid or fixt. But, to avoid prolixity, I will fee 
down that way only, which they proceed in without Lead. 
They break and pound the Ore, in water, very fine ; they wafli it of- 
ten, and lay it in powder upon cloachs, and by the gentle oblique de- 
fcendingof the water over it, and their continual flirring it, the carch^Y 
clayifli, and lighter parts are waftit away, while the heavier and met- 
tailine remain in the cloth, Thefe clothes are afterwards wafht clean in 
feveralTubs, and the water, after fome fettling, powr'd off from its fedi- 
ment; which fediment is again wafht, and ilirr'd up in feveral veffels 
and troughs, till at length they fprinkle Quickfilver upon it, and knead it 
well together, for an hour, and then wafhing it again in a wooden vefTel, 
after the feparating of much of it which the Qqickfilver touches not • by 
ftriking this vcffel againft their leg, they bring the Gold and Quickfilver 
together, in an Amalgama , to one corner of it. From this Amal- 
gama they ftrain as much of the Quickfilver as they can through coarfe 
clothes firft, and then through fine : they put the mafs remaining upon a 
perforated Plate, which they fet over a deep pan placed in the earth - in 
in the bottom of which p n they aifo put quickfilver : This pan they 
j cover, and lute the cover well and then make a charcoal-fire uponic; 
" they drive down the Quickfilver yet remaining in the Gold to the reft in 
the bottom of thepm ; then taking out the Gold, they caft it into the 
fire, that it may ftill become purer. 
Concerning Cr^«^f/?-Gold (of which you particularly inquire) lean- 
not learn, that there is any fuch Gold, or place where Gold is diggM, in 
Hungary I but in Germany, I think, there is : for Agrlcola mentions 
C fuch 
